To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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